Burgess followed his first-round 65 for a two-day 6-under-par total of 134 to beat La Jolla’s Ben Doyle by two strokes. The senior led the Falcons to a 711 team score for their third straight Division I title.

Cathedral Catholic won the Division II crown with a 734 and will join Torrey Pines and the top 10 individuals not on those two teams at the Southern California Regional in two weeks.

“It feels good,” said Burgess, who won the Palomar League title this month with a 68-66. “I wanted to win. I came in thinking I really had a legitimate shot, so it’s nice to come in and pull it off.”

Burgess started the final round with a one-shot cushion over Carlsbad’s Ricky Desantis and a two-shot lead over a group of players that included Doyle, last year’s Southern California Regional winner. Doyle also shot a 69 to follow his first-round 67.

“The pins were in a lot tougher locations,” said Burgess, who has signed to play for SMU next year. “The greens might have been a little bit faster.”

The day actually didn’t start off too well at the par-70 Escondido Country Club. Burgess, who started on hole No. 10 in the shotgun format, was at 2-over through the first three holes after bogeying 11 and 12, causing him to lose his lead over Doyle.

“I started off really bad,” said Burgess. “But I tried to stay patient. I knew I’d been playing well so I didn’t expect to come in and not play well. I wasn’t nervous or uncomfortable really. I stayed patient and it turned around.”

Burgess rebounded with birdies on 15 and 16. On 17, he made birdie on a 30-foot downhill putt with a slight break to the left.

“It could easily get away from you and have a tough comebacker, but I really just hit it perfect,” he said. “That just gave me momentum going on.”

Burgess also birdied No. 1 in that five-hole stretch for a four-shot lead over Doyle.

“It’s amazing,” said Torrey Pines golf coach Chris Drake. “It’s been really incredible to watch Ryan grow as a young man and as a player for the last four years. He’s always been consistent and he’s always been good, but this is the best month I’ve seen for any player.”

Aside from his league title, Burgess won the AJGA Under Armour/Hunter Mahan Championship last month in Plano, Texas.

Contributing to Torrey Pines’ win was Danny Ochoa, who recently committed to USC. He shot a 73 to follow his first-round 67.

“It’s tougher and tougher every year,” Drake said of the team win. “There’s a lot of talent down here. We have such a golf rich community here in San Diego, it’s a hard thing to win.”

In a strange turn of events, La Jolla Country Day’s Alberto Sanchez, who was third overall after shooting a 69-68-137, said he wouldn’t be continuing at the regionals. With four players in a playoff to determine the last two spots, Sanchez’s withdrawal allowed one more.